Local and regional factors determining aquatic and semi-aquatic bug (Heteroptera) assemblages in rivers and streams of Greece

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 573, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 199-212

  Karaouzas, Ioannis ^a   Gritzalis, Konstantinos C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Distribution; Environmental factors; Greece; Heteroptera; Multivariate analysis; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

ASSEMBLAGES; CANONICAL ORDINATION TECHNIQUES (CCA); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GREECE; HETEROPTERA DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VARIATION PARTITIONING;

BIODIVERSITY;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INSECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

HETEROPTERA; NEPOMORPHA;

EID: 33750733910     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0274-1     Document Type: Article

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